MOTIONLESSLY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Motionlessly

... evening being unusually calm, and its breath sweet with the smell of flowers, and aroma of the juniper and fir. The sky was without a stain, except in the west, and there clouds of a dark crimson tinge clustered, motionlessly, about twenty degrees above the horizon, and extending from the S.W. to the N.W., looked like a narrow zone of red-hot iron; but their splendid colour was lessened by being seen through blacker vapours, that thrown, as a veil of crape, over them, ...

— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross